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What is Agile?

What is Agile?

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What is Agile?

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- So we know that lean is a way of building a product or business without wasting resources, without spending the money until we have to. But what is agile? Aren't they the same thing? Well, a little bit. In this lecture, we're going to talk about agile, and why it's so important for a product manager to understand. So what is agile? Well, it's pretty easy. Agile is just a way of applying that lean mindset to software development. And agile as you know, is an adjective. You can say something is agile, but when people, especially in the software or tech industry say the word agile, they're usually meeting agile software development, which is just a sort of a project management framework for software development. Agile is an iterative method to developing software, where we group things into small batches and do them in order to not waste resources. So let's imagine that you are writing down the features that you…

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